Swedish artist Roland Svennsson's picturesque depiction of the eating of Mount Nimba. Credit: Roland Svensson, 1969. Courtesy of the family of Roland Svensson.

Thrilled to be part of an @envirohistory.bsky.social Forum on Subterranean Archives with co-author Emmanuelle Roth. In "Visual Tailings," a surfeit of photos & films born of industrial extraction by a Swedish #mining co. in Liberia makes for unruly remains.
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JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely!

CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

Laying the red carpet for H5N1

Thanks, Iva!

Where mining and conservation meet Far from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism.

And the second in the series. #Biodiversity and carbon offsets—cornerstones of neoliberal conservation—have become critical tools for mining companies, with consequential social and ecological costs in #Liberia and #Guinea.
#envhist #convivialconservation

Could expanding protected land undermine biodiversity? Paradoxically, conservation efforts in Liberia and Senegal are threatening native ecology.

Thanks to @africasacountry.bsky.social for working with us on this two-part series on The Underbelly of Conservation, as mining and #conservation increasingly work together to dispossess local communities of land and livelihoods in the name of development and environmental protection in West Africa.

📢 JOB OPENINGS at CSIC @cchscsic.bsky.social (Madrid)!

As part of my ERC project WILDHIST, the Institute of History is hiring two 3-year postdoctoral researchers in the global history of rubber.

Application deadline: 24 April 2026.

More info 👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/422012

@erc.europa.eu

No worries, Jayson. So happy to see your book making its way into the world.

Congratulations! That's awesome.

On the history of the primate trade and colonial/postcolonial ecologies of extraction, conservation and care. Thanks to my co-editor Tara Suri and all who contributed to this Focus section in Isis. FREE ACCESS!
#envhist #sts #conservation #primates

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We just dropped the trailer to OVERBURDEN. Looking forward to getting this film out in the world. A huge thanks to the entire team involved, spanning four continents. overburdenfilm.com
#biodiversity #mining #ConvivialConservation #envhist #liberia

Sorry about that Libby. Will need to delete and retry!

The Toxic Landscapes of War | Los Angeles Review of Books Gregg Mitman looks at the bodily damage that soldiers take home in Joshua Howe and Alexander Lemons’s ‘Warbody: A Marine Sniper and the Hidden Violence of Modern Warfare.’

It was a pleasure to work with the folks @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social in publishing this review of WARBODY, an unflinching examination of war as a toxic Superfund site. WARBODY is an appeal to listen: to veterans, to their bodies, and to their calls for a more compassionate system of care.

Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health Workshop organized by Prof. Gregg Mitman and Dr. Emanuelle Roth (RCC/LMU)

Looking forward to today's talks and discussion at the Hotspots of Concern: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biodiversity and Health workshop convened by @emmanuelleroth.bsky.social & @greggmitman.bsky.social www.cas.lmu.de/en/events/ev...

was reading a poli sci book about the US response to the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak and the challenges to (not just) experts (but expertise), was also a function/subset of challenging sovereign authority. Just who’s in charge - or should be - during health crises? Whose/what knowledge is valued?

Collage of three images. The first reads: "Max Planck Institute for the history of Science. Career. We're hiring." The second image shows a researcher presenting at the March 2025 Publications Slam. The third shows a group of people at the institute's courtyard. Second image by Anna Ruhnow, MPIWG 2025. Third image by MPIWG, 2021.

Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life" seeks a Collaborative Research Coordinator!

🤝 Help expand its community-based, publicly engaged research
🎤 Advise researchers on cooperative methods
📋 Coordinate cooperation agreements

🗓️ Deadline: Sep 28, 2025
🔗 bit.ly/45FXu8R

#HistSci #EnvHist

Thank you, Libby!

Appropriations Senators Retain Vertebrate Status Even Susan Collins voted to fully fund NIH and CDC and give no money to MAHA

There are still many ways that the MAHA movement can crush the NIH, but the Senate Appropriations Committee—including most of the GOP—grew a spine & rejected one of the biggest ones yesterday: a full rebuke of proposed budget cuts & reorganization of the NIH.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

The graphic shows cultivated lands bordering on a river/wetland and collections of trees (credit: AXIO-IMAGES from Getty Images) in the background of text bubbles. The text summarizes key details of the conference. Please read the description and the full call on the RCC website for this information.

We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)

Mutual Aid in the Age of Fascism - Boston Review As people are being deputized to do violence, building connections is political resistance.

“A fascist society is one in which some people are deputized to do violence, and everyone else is forced to defend themselves.”

Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.

It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.

unbreaking.org/issues/medic...

I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, features this and other passages that need a reponse. 1/

“Ugly, Destructive, Deadly”: Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare As a Republican-sponsored budget bill advances through Congress, we hear from Bishop William Barber about how the bill hurts low-income people. “It is about death-dealing and destruction to the poor...

"A Big, Ugly, Destructive, Deadly Bill": Bishop William Barber Slams Bill Cutting Medicaid, Medicare

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk

“It’s the next generation we have to protect and care about,” Gregg Gonsalves. Thankful to @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, who has never shied from speaking truth to power.

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate | Science | AAAS

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.

Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."

Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.

I wrote about my decision in TIME.

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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

Poisoning the air of a Black community for a fucking chatbot.

Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s…

Internal records show that the NIH axed grants for research about transgender people despite a court order barring the cuts.

Agency officials also testified that DOGE was involved in directing grant terminations.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

Bird flu isn't as silent as we think — experts caution the pandemic threat is still growing It's been months since a major update in H5N1 news, but that doesn't mean the virus has disappeared

So we haven't heard much in the news about H5N1 lately...is it because the threat is gone?

I don't think so. Viruses don't just go away when you stop looking for them.

I spoke with @carlynzwaren.bsky.social @salonnewsroom.bsky.social about it 👇

www.salon.com/2025/04/30/b...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10
www.nature.com/articles/d41...